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Time Period
Unit
Readings
(What we Read)
Authors
(Who We Read/Studied)
Key Concepts
(Key Ideas Explored)
Key Terms
(Key Terms Defined)
Helpful Links
(Relevant Web-Based Resources)
Pre-Early
1600s
Origins and Encounters
"Genesis 1-4"

"Blue Highways"

"Coyote Stories"

"Of Plymouth Plantation"

"The World on the Turtle's Back"

“Women and Children First: The Mayflower Pilgrims”
John Smith

William Bradford

William Least Heat-Moon

Iroquois

Joseph Campbell
  • T.F.o.M. =
    D2+C+L
  • T.T. = FEMT
  • 4 functions of myth= metaphysical, cosmological, sociological, pedagogical
  • ANCE = awe, nature, custom, ethics
  • Conflicts between Native Americans & Settlers: Land/Nature, religion, communication
  • Author's Purpose
  • Bias
  • Cause and Effect
  • Creation Myth
  • Fable
  • Folk Tales
  • Historical Narrative
  • Literature
  • Monotheism
  • Myth
  • Polytheism
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
  • Summarizing
  • Trickster Tales

16th - 17th century
Colonial/
Puritanism
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741)

"The Crucible" (1950s)

"To my Dear and Loving Husband"

"Upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666"

"A model of Christian Charity"
John Winthrop

Roger Williams

John Edwards

Anne Bradstreet

Arthur Miller
  • B.O.P.
  • T.U.L.I.P.
  • Moral Panic
  • 3 Appeals of Rhetoric (ethos, pathos, logos)
  • Body and Ligaments
  • "City on a hill"
  • John Calvin and Calvinism*
  • Chruch vs. State
  • American Exceptionalism
  • Afterlife
  • Allegory
  • Atonement
  • Blue Laws
  • Connotation
  • Covenant
  • Denotation
  • Great Awakening
  • Justification
  • Loaded Language
  • Mediator
  • Meter
  • Regenerate
  • Rhetorical Hierarchy
  • Sanctifaction
  • Seperatist
  • Syntax
  • Theme
  • Utopia
5 Points of Calvinism
1700s
Enlightenment
"Common Sense"

"What Is An American"

"The Way to Wealth"

"Continuation of the Account of My Life. Begun At Passy,1784"

"The Declaration of Independence"

"On the Emigration to America..."

"The Indian Burying Ground"
Thomas Paine

John Locke

Benjamin Franklin

Crevecoeur

Thomas Jefferson

Phillip Freneau
  • Proof of God
  • L.L.P. of H.
  • Natural Rights
  • 13 Virtues of Franklin
  • Locke's Primary ideas: Idea of mind, morality, God, natural state, government, relgious tolerance, revolution
  • Absolutism
  • Aphorism
  • Deism
  • Humanitarianism
  • Moral Law
  • Natural State
  • Non Fiction
  • Parallelism
  • Philosophe
  • Relativism
  • Social Contract
  • Tabula Rasa
TrackStar

Common Sense

Declaration of Independence
early - mid 19th century
Transcendentalism/ Romanticism
"Self-Reliance"

"Civil Disobedience"

"Psalm of Life"

"Nature"

"Walden"

"Song of Myself"

"I Hear America Singing"

"I Sit and Look Out"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Walt Whitman
  • Individualism
  • Finding true isolation and serenity in nature.
  • Truth beyond reason
  • Truth through reason
  • Connection between man and nature
  • Discovering the truth about oneself
  • The meaning of life
  • Living life to the fullest.
  • Simplicity
  • Anti-materialism
  • Plato: World of Forms
  • Leaving a legacy
  • The power of one to effect great change; being an agent of change
  • Majority vs. minority
  • Embracing Death
  • Democracy
  • Intuition
  • Non-Conformity
  • Oversoul
  • Transcendentalism
  • Transcendentalists
  • Romanticism
  • Solitude
  • Free Verse
  • Catalog
  • Repitition
  • Parallelism
Civil Disobedience

Thoreau

Outline of Transcendental Thought

American Transcendentalism

Walt Whitman
early 19th and 20th centuries
Gothic Literature
The Masque of the Red Death

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

A Rose for Emily

The Life You Save May be Your Own

The Birthmark
Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

William Faulkner

Flannery O'Connor
  • D^3+T+G+C
  • Allegory
  • Characterization
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Flashbacks
  • Foreshadowing
  • Situational Irony

Civil War and Reconstruction
Conflict and Expansion
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Stanzas on Freedom

Free Labor

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

A Mystery of Heroism
Frederick Douglass

James Russell Lowell

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Ambrose Bierce

Stephen Crane
  • Fate
  • Heroism is not heroic
  • Freedom
  • Effect of environment on human behavior
  • Autobiography
  • Irony
  • Naturalism
  • Objective
  • Point of View
  • Protest Poetry
  • Subjective
  • Style
  • Symbol
  • Third-person limited
  • Third-person omniscient
  • Verisimilitude
  • Visualising


"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Twain's Social Criticism in Huck Finn:
  • Mob mentality
  • Family feuds
  • The gullibility of society
  • Religion
  • The value of human life
  • Romanticism and sentimental poetry
  • Hypocrisy
  • Idleness
  • The cruelty of society
  • Slavery and racism
  • Journey to freedom
  • Allusion
  • Bildungsroman
  • Colloquial
  • Deadpan
  • Dialect
  • Episodic Novel
  • Foil
  • Gilded Age
  • Local Color Realism
  • Picaresque
  • Realism
  • Romanticism
  • Satire
  • Social Commentary
  • Verisimilitude
  • Vernacular


Rhetoric
Speech in the Virginia Convention

Women's Rights are Human Rights

American Crisis

This Sacred Soil

I Will Fight No More Forever

The Gettysburg Address

Ain't I a Woman?

After Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential Election

I Have a Dream

JFK Inaugural Address

The Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address

Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People
Patrick Henry

Hilary Clinton

Thomas Paine

Chief Seattle

Chief Joseph

Abraham Lincoln

Sojourner Truth

Susan B. Anthony

Martin Luther King Jr.

John F. Kennedy

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

  • Ad Hominem
  • Allusion
  • Anaphora
  • Anastrophe
  • Antimetabole
  • Antithesis
  • Argumentation
  • Asyndenton
  • Begging the Question
  • Circular Reasoning
  • Claim, Warrant, Support
  • Concession to the Opposition
  • Deduction
  • Elevated Language
  • Epistrophe
  • Generalization
  • Horative Sentences
  • Hyperbole
  • Induction
  • Logical Fallacy
  • Mythos
  • Parallelism
  • Polyptoton
  • Polysyndenton
  • Premise
  • Red Herring
  • Rhetorical Question

Reconstruction & Present Day
Women's Voices Unit
The Yellow Wallpaper

Story of an Hour

Women's Rights are Human Rights
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Kate Chopin

Hillary Clinton

Emily Dickinson
  • Family
  • Emotional Sensitivity
  • Injustice
  • General Inferiority
  • Marriage as onerous
  • Beauty
  • Rigid Gender Roles


1920s
The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • (Loss of)American Dream
  • Movement from West to East
  • Roaring Twenties
  • "April the Cruelest month"
  • Jazz(sex) Age
  • The Great American Novel
  • New money
  • Old Money
  • Platonic Conception
  • Closing of the Frontier
  • Symbolism
  • "Lost Generation"

1920-1930s
Harlem Renaissance
"I, Too"

"Harlem"

"The Weary Blues"

"from Love, Langston"

"When the Negro was in Vogue"

"How It feels to Be Colored Me"

"From Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View"

"My Dungeon Shook"

"Thoughts on the African-American Novel"
Langston Hughes

Dahleen Glanton

Zora Neale Hurston

Alice Walker

James Baldwin

Toni Morrison
  • "unprecedented period of literary, musical, and artistic production among African Americans"
  • Promoted that Blacks were also Americans
  • African Americans celebrated their roots
  • Blues
  • Rhythm
  • Open Letter
  • Autobiographical Essays
  • Syntax
  • Author's perspective








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